Temperature-dependent stability of supported five-fold twinned copper nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 901-906

  Silly, Fabien ^a,b   Castell, Martin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Decahedron; Icosahedron; Nanocrystal; Octohedron; Oxide; Phase diagram; Scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

COPPER NANOCRYSTALS; CU DEPOSITION; DECAHEDRON; ICOSAHEDRON; NUCLEATION TEMPERATURE; OCTOHEDRON; PHASE MAPS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); SRTIO; STRUCTURE TRANSITIONS; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

NANOCRYSTALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SCANNING;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 67049114015     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900059v     Document Type: Article

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